Going, Going, Gone?
Some legacy technologies are on the verge of extinction. Here's what emerging systems are replacing them and how to ensure your staff is ready.
Some legacy technologies are on the verge of extinction. Here's what emerging systems are replacing them and how to ensure your staff is ready.
South Dakotan I.T. workers won't have to bid adieu to their mainframes just yet. Though the state plans to phase out its mainframe and AS/400 minicomputers in favor of more modern systems, CIO Otto Doll has not set an end date for these legacy platforms.
"We decided to allow attrition so we can move people over to new skill sets gradually. As we are slowly moving systems off the mainframe and mini world, we are doing the same thing with our people. It will take years," says Doll, commissioner in the Bureau of Information and Telecommunications in South Dakota's capital city of Pierre. "We hope to be able to forklift the mainframe by 2010, but there is no guarantee of that."
